tv, no sound

[Tom Stanton]

At 11:18 PM 9/16/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Peter Giordano wrote:\
>> My kids and I do this when commericals come on during THE SIMPSONS - It
>> makes the commericals very interesting [snip..]
>
>i find this "phenomenon" highly amusing--i meet some friends on sundays
>to watch the fox cartoons and x-files, and occassionally someone hits
>mute during the commercial break, and, and...we often watch the
>commercials anyway!

Why go silent? You know that if you flip on the radio or a fave record
the music or dialog *always* matches up nicely with whatever is on
TV.

Years ago, before VCRs, etc., the requisite porno film was shown
during a friend's batchelor party. The sound track didn't work, so we
substituted with music on the stereo. Someone had the brilliant notion
of playing a taped soundtrack from "The Wizard of Oz" and the results
were so good we were sore from laughing. The early Munchkin line
"We'd like to thank you sweetly/For doing it so neatly" still makes me 
laugh. The 3-way section of the flick was scored with "The Merry Old
Land of Oz" and was a classic. Ya-ha-ha, Yo-ho-ho, and merry old 
fahl-de-rah indeed!

Tom